Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination (GeoMAC)
Run by a multi-agency group known as the GeoMAC
Team
http://geomac.usgs.gov/
Help File: http://geomac.usgs.gov/help/help.html
Introduction:
GeoMAC is an internet based
mapping tool originally designed for fire managers to access online maps of
current fire locations and perimeters in the conterminous 48 states and Alaska.
It is run by a multi-agency group known as the GeoMAC Team.
Data Available:
This site best displays active fires and fire perimeters. It
can also show fires from the previous two years, general topography, and
general features.
Data Range:
Data can be displayed from the current day, year, or from
the previous year. For the current information’s date, see the bottom of the
wildfire viewer’s screen.
Example: July 4,
2003 Active Fires/2003 Fires/2002 Fires
The data extends across the continental United
States and Alaska.
Layers are not available for download, and no archives are
kept.
Data Layers:
Data Collection:
Fire perimeter data
is updated daily based upon input from incident intelligence sources, GPS data,
IR imagery from fixed wing and satellite platforms.
The initial data
will incorporate National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) Situation Report Data,
NOAA satellite image data processed by the USDA - Forest Service, National
Atlas of the United States data, USGS National Elevation Dataset (NED),
seamless data from the USGS EROS Data Center and other ancillary information
from BLM, USDA-FS, and USGS.
?how/where it is
stored (on server or distributed)?
Data Analysis:
display only, no predictions made
Data
Presentation/Features:
The GeoMAC web
site allows users in remote locations to manipulate map information displays,
zoom in and out to display fire information at various scales and detail,
including downloading desired information and printing hard copy for use on the
fireline. The fire maps also have relational databases in which the user can
display information on individual fires such as name of the fire, current acreage
and other fire status information with just the click of a mouse.
The technology
being implemented includes ESRI ArcIMS (Internet Map Server) and ArcSDE
(Spatial Database Engine) that is viewable from any standard web browser, such
as Microsoft Internet Explorer™ and Netscape™ Communicator™.
The design of the
database will allow the user to "drill down" to 1:24,000-scale
information.
Users:
Originally designed for fire managers, GeoMAC
is now available to the general public due to their growing concern.
Contact:
The GeoMAC Team, it’s a
multi-agency group with technical and subject matter experts from the
Department of Interior’s fire management agencies – the Bureau of Land
Management, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the United States Forest Service of the
Department of Agriculture, also the U.S. Geological survey from the Department
of the Interior. Other partners include the National Interagency Fire Center,
U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic & Atmosperheric
Administration. Private corporations including ESRI, ERDAS, Sun Microsystems,
and IBM provided mapping software applications, computer hardware, and
technical expertise.
http://geomac.usgs.gov/geomac2002/AboutGeoMAC/ContactInfo.html
GeoMAC is housed at the U.S.
Geological Surevey’s Rocky
Mountain Mapping
Center in Denver,
CO.
GeoMAC
Building 810, Denver
Federal Center
Denver, CO
80225, USA
E-mail: geomac@usgs.gov
joe_frost@fs.fed.us
janis_reimers@blm.gov
System Requirements:
http://geomac.usgs.gov/geomac2002/SysReq.html